Re: [Flightgear-devel] DDS texures (Was: Improving random trees &

[Martin S. <Mar...@mg...>]

"Vivian Meazza" wrote:

> "Image "D:/Git_New/my_fgdata/Textures/Terrain/sand6.dds" uses compressed DDS
> textures which may be unsupported by your video driver and not display
> properly."

Well, the stumbling block here is proprietary, patented !! compression
which therefore is unsupported in OpenSource land - the ecosystem in
which FlightGear has developed.  I think this fact should not be
clouded by such a nebulous wording.

Cheers,
	Martin.
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